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Originally Posted by Ferre
If Google has intelligent people working on those algos they should definately reduce the rankings of sites that have their majority of backlinks from directories. Sites that get no natural linking are not worth visiting anyway, and I fail to see why Google should rank those sites in competitive positions.
Just face it, the internet has many niches that are over-populated with sites that add nothing to the net, besides the greed of those site owners. Filtering out the crap is what makes a search engine a 'quality' search engine and to be honest, Google has a lot to catch up with to get back into the 'quality' since they themselves have introduced ways to monetize garbage sites. I guess they are fixing some self-created gaps in their algos.
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I disagree, who is going to link to a commercial ecommerce site just for the fun of it? Does this mean the site isn't worth visiting? I don't think so, Why should everyone blog? Plenty of poeple just want to offer their services online, How do you expect a normal small to medium sized business to build up links naturally?
BTW - Directories still work as ever it's just some have seen the PR drop a bit, the sites that have lost positions have not got enough variation in anchor text.